नामकरणम्Giving the name
Verse 150
ह्रीँ आपो हि ष्ठा मयोभुवस्ता न ऊर्ज्जे दधातन महे रणाय चक्षुषे ॥ १५० ॥
hrīm̐ āpō hi ṣṭhā mayōbhuvastā na ūrjjē dadhātana mahē raṇāya cakṣuṣē || 150 ||
Translation
"Hrīṁ. Waters, you are the bringers of joy: set us in strength, for great delight and for sight."
Word by word
- hrīm̐
- hrīṁ
- āpaḥ
- (āpaḥ) O waters
- hi
- for
- ṣṭhā
- (sthā) you are
- mayōbhuvaḥ
- (mayobhuvaḥ) bringers of joy
- tāḥ
- (tāḥ) you
- naḥ
- (naḥ) us
- ūrjjē
- (ūrje) in strength
- dadhātana
- set
- mahē
- for great
- raṇāya
- delight
- cakṣuṣē
- for sight
Meaning
The first of three verses of the Vedic hymn to the waters (Ṛgveda 10.9.1-3), each here begun with hrīṁ in place of oṁ. The commentary reads it in two levels: the waters give food and strength in this world, and in the next the "great delight worth seeing", which is Brahman. It explains the Vedic forms: "mahe" for "mahate", "raṇāya" for "ramaṇīyāya", delightful.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Āpaḥ" and the rest. O waters, since you are mayobhuvaḥ, mayaḥ meaning happiness, those who bring it about, who cause it to be had, therefore (tāḥ) set us (naḥ) in strength (ūrj), in food; and moreover set us in the great (mahe = mahate), in raṇa, the delightful, for the eye (cakṣuṣe), for seeing (darśanīya). The sense is: O waters, since you give happiness, therefore unite us with food and the like belonging to this world, and with Brahman, which belongs to the other world, the greatly delightful, the one worth seeing. "Hi ṣṭhā" is the imperative (loṭ) second person plural of the root as, to be; "dadhātana" is also the imperative second person plural of dhā, established by the rule "in Vedic usage, variously" (chandasi bahulam). "Mahe" stands for "mahate", the a and t dropped (as Vedic)so it becomes "mahe". "Raṇāya": in Vedic usage raṇa is substituted for the word ramaṇīya, delightful. "Cakṣuṣe" is a dative of a word ending in the suffix us.